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1 Fifth International Workshop on Detection, Classification, Localization, and Density Estimation of Marine Mammals using Passive Acoustics Timberline Lodge, Mt. Hood, Oregon, USA SCHEDULE Saturday 20-Aug-11 Hotel check-in for early arrivals Front Desk Sunday 21-Aug-11 07:00-08:30 breakfast buffet nest 07:30-08:30 12:00-13:00 19:00-21:00 08:30-10:00 Registration Hall Introduction to Detection, Classification, and Localization: Mellinger, Klinck, Roch, Nosal Barlow Room Introduction to Density Estimation: Thomas, Marques, Harris Lower lobby Hall & Barlow room 10:00-10:20 coffee break coffee break foyer Tutorials (concurrent) 10:20-12:15 Introduction to DCL, continued Introduction to DE, continued & Barlow 12:30-13:30 lunch lunch nest 13:30-15:20 Introduction to DCL, continued Introduction to DE, continued & Barlow 15:20-15:40 coffee break coffee break foyer 15:40-18:00 Introduction to DCL, continued Introduction to DE, continued & Barlow 18:30-20:00 dinner buffet for tutorial attendees nest

2 Monday 22-Aug-11 06:30-08:15 breakfast buffet 08:30-12:00 Registration Lower lobby 08:30 Detection and Classification session. Chair: Y. Simard 08:30-08:40 Mellinger Introductory comments 08:40-09:00 Simard Automatic detection and classification of wild beluga whale clicks: performance of a click detecting instrument under various conditions 09:00-09:20 Yack Automated detection and classification of Dall's porpoise in the California Current ecosystem 09:20-09:40 Oswald Automatic detection and classification of bowhead and beluga whale calls in the Eastern Chukchi Sea 09:40-10:00 Birleanu Recurrence Plot Analysis (RPA): a new tool for click detection and clustering clicks into trains 10:00-10:20 Azzara Assessment of large vessel noise impacts on sperm whales in the Gulf of Mexico 10:20 coffee break 10:40 Detection and Classification session. Chair: M. Weise 10:40-11:00 Moretti The detection of Cuvier s beaked whales (Ziphius cavirostris ) across ocean basins 11:00-11:20 Gérard Analysis of various beaked whale recordings in eastern Atlantic 11:20-11:40 Ward Mesoplodon densirostris click characteristics for passive acoustic monitoring Detection and Classification 11:40-12:00 DiMarzio Temporal and spatial distribution of Blainville s beaked whales using passive acoustic detection data 12:00-12:20 Abeille Robust bi-density automatic determination of the inter-pulse interval of the Physeter macrocephalus click 12:30 lunch buffet 13:40 Detection and Classification session. Chair: W. Zimmer 13:40-14:00 Zimmer Detection and classification of delphinids using clicks and whistles 14:00-14:20 Frasier Odontocete species identification by analysis of whistle component shape and sequence 14:20-14:40 Johansson High-resolution whistle detection and frequency tracking using adaptive notch filters 14:40-15:00 Hager Marine mammal monitoring during a Navy explosives training event off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia 15:00-15:20 Freitag Reducing mutual interference between marine mammals and acoustic modems 15:20 coffee break 15:40 Detection and Classification session. Chair: A.Thode 15:40-16:00 Thode Automated detection and localization of bowhead whale sounds in the presence of seismic airgun surveys, :00-16:20 Mouy Automatic detection of underwater walrus sounds in the eastern Chukchi Sea 16:20-16:40 Denes A comparison of marine mammal detections from co-located sub-sampling passive acoustic monitors 16:40-17:00 Renken An approach to generalized marine mammal vocalization detection based on spectrogram representations 17:00-17:20 Bougher Improved band-limited marine mammal detector using signal excess 18:30-20:00 dinner buffet (followed by an outdoor bonfire in amphitheater) Head house

3 Tuesday 23-Aug-11 06:30-08:15 breakfast buffet 08:30 Detection and Classification session. Chair: M. Roch 08:30-08:40 Roch Introductory comments 08:40-09:00 Roch Recent improvements to the Silbido graph-based whistle detector 09:00-09:20 Eshafanian Classification of dolphin whistle types using an eigen-whistle algorithm 09:20-09:40 Binder Passive classification of marine mammal vocalizations using an automatic aural classifier 09:40-10:00 Caillat A Bayesian approach to study the uncertainty generated by miss-classified acoustic detections 10:00-10:20 Yang Noise reduction for better detection of beaked whale clicks 10:20 coffee break 10:40 Detection and Classification session. Chair: J. Oswald 10:40-11:00 Oswald Are there species-specific whistle types that can be used to increase classification success? 11:00-11:20 Cholewiak Description and classification of humpback whale social sounds 11:20-11:40 Helble A normalized event detection algorithm for humpback vocalizations 11:40-12:00 Pace Classification of humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae ) calls using Hidden Markov Models 12:00-12:20 Razik Dictionary learning for automatic humpback song units analysis Detection and Classification 12:30 lunch buffet 13:40 Detection and Classification session. Chair: D. Gillespie 13:40-14:00 Gillespie Whistle classification using fragmented and partially detected whistle contours 14:00-14:20 Roy Non-stereotyped wild beluga whale clicks and buzzes: patterns of diversity in frequency, duration, amplitude and time intervals 14:20-14:40 Stevens Two offshore autonomous acoustic recorders in the northwest Atlantic: analysis and results 14:40-15:00 Chmelnitsky Beluga whale, Delphinapterus leucas, vocalizations and their relation to behaviour in the Churchill River, Manitoba, Canada 15:00-15:20 Monnin Acoustic monitoring of Physeter macrocephalus : does the moon impact the number of clicks? 15:20 coffee break 15:40 Detection and Classification session. Chair: R. Gisiner 15:40-16:00 Klinck Passive autonomous acoustic monitoring of beaked whales using Seaglider 16:00-16:20 Matsumoto QUEphone : An acoustic float for marine mammal monitoring 16:20-16:40 Robbins A software engine for low-power remote-deployable real-time acoustic detection and classification of marine mammals using open-source tools 16:40-17:00 Rankin Practical considerations for acoustic detection, classification, and localization of marine mammals during shipboard line-transect surveys 18:30-20:00 dinner buffet

4 Posters Posters will be on display all week in the BARLOW room Designated poster sessions, when authors will be with their posters, are: Wednesday 15:20-16:20 Thursday 10:00-11:00 Barkley Capurro Dodge Doh ROCCA n Rollin: Real-time species identification of false killer whales during a cetacean survey of the Hawaiian Islands in 2010 Vocal behavior of killer whales in Punta Norte, Argentina Ishmael 2.0: An improved software package for detection and localization of marine mammal vocalizations Radial velocity estimation using doppler effect on sperm whale clicks Doh Hager Harris Hurst Jacobson Kumar Miller Modeling sperm whale sound emission by Green's function Acoustic detection of Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus ) vocalizations using SSQ53F sonobuoys modified for autonomous data Estimating the abundance of Balaenoptera musculus in the northern Indian Ocean using vocalizations recorded by a single hydrophone DMON as the basis of a low-power, low-noise passive acoustic detection and monitoring system Evaluation of an automated beaked whale detector using multiple validation and assessment methods Using passive acoustics to monitor the presence of marine mammals during naval exercises Blue and fin whale abundance and acoustics in the Southern Ocean Nieukirk Unger Oswald Ward Weirathmueller Wennerberg Increase in peak Fin whale calling levels observed in the mid-atlantic ocean Analyzing and Layering Multiple Sensors Using Streams-Based Analytics for Real Time High Probability Results Whistle contour extraction and classification using ROCCA (Real-time Odontocete Call Classification Algorithm), a new module Passive acoustic sperm whale density estimation in the Tongue of the Ocean, Bahamas Automatic detection methods for fin whale calls at different locations in the NE Pacific Ocean Novel approaches to calculating a C-POD detection function for the harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena )

5 Wednesday 24-Aug-11 06:30-08:15 breakfast buffet 08:30 Localization session. Chair: E. Nosal 08:30-08:40 Nosal Introductory comments 08:40-09:00 Nosal Tracking minke whales: Results from the 2011 DCL localization dataset 09:00-09:20 Glotin Physeter distance estimation using sub-band Leroy transmission loss model 09:20-09:40 Gassmann Three dimensional localization of odontocetes using seafloor multi-channel acoustic recording packages 09:40-10:00 Urazghildiiev Detection, classification, and localization of marine mammals 10:00 coffee break 10:20 Localization session. Chair: T. Norris 10:20-10:40 Norris A semi-automated, interactive tool for reviewing acoustic data collected during towed hydrophone, line-transect surveys for density estimation 10:40-11:00 Macaulay Fine scale passive acoustic tracking of narrow band high frequency clicks 11:00-11:20 Wilcock Application of double-difference earthquake relocation techniques to refining marine mammal tracks 11:20-11:40 Valtierra A simple autocorrelation method for multipath localization techniques Localization & Poster Session 1 11:40-12:00 Josso Dolphin localization and motion estimation with a single hydrophone multipath propagation 12:15 lunch buffet 13:40 Localization session. Chair: H. Glotin 13:40-14:00 Glotin Sparse coding of minke whale boings for particle filtering tracking from bottom mounted hydrophones 14:00-14:20 Urazghildiiev Statistical properties of a TDOA-bsed localization algorithm 14:20-14:40 von Benda- Beckmann Comparative study of towed array baselines for instantaneous localization of marine mammals Depth and range tracking of sperm whales in the Gulf of Alaska using a twoelement vertical array, satellite and bioacoustic 14:40-15:00 Mathias tags 15:00-15:20 Yack Real-Time detection and tracking of beaked whales using a towed hydrophone 15:20-16:20 coffee break & poster session 1 (see page 4 for titles) Barlow room 16:20 Data session. Chair: M. Roch 16:20-17:20 open Discussion of Workshop Data Set Results 18:30-20:00 dinner buffet (followed by an outdoor bonfire in amphitheater)

6 Thursday 25-Aug-11 07:00-08:30 breakfast buffet 08:30 Density Estimation session. Chair: J. Barlow 08:30-08:40 Barlow Introductory comments 08:40-09:00 Barlow Use of tagging data to estimate trackline probabilities for beaked whales on line-transect surveys with towed hydrophones 09:00-09:20 Moretti The efficacy of towed array based line transect survey of Blainville's beaked whales using baseline data from the AUTEC array 09:20-09:40 Küsel Detection function estimation by means of propagation modeling for population density estimation studies 09:40-10:00 Prieto Estimating the density of Antarctic blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus González intermedia ) using their calls 10:00-11:00 coffee break & poster session 2 (see page 4 for titles) Barlow room Density Estimation & Poster Session 2 11:00 Density Estimation session. Chair: W. Au 11:00-11:20 Au Distribution of deep diving echolocating odontocetes around the island of Kauai, Hawaii 11:20-11:40 Martin Towed and fixed passive acoustic density estimation for minke whales in Hawaii 11:40-12:00 Akamatsu Direct counting of porpoises using stereo acoustic event recorders 12:00-12:20 Theriault Sorting out numbers: How many animals are clicking? 12:20 lunch buffet 13:40 Density Estimation session. Chair: L. Thomas 13:40-14:00 Thomas Correcting for bias due to animal depth in passive acoustic line transect estimates of density 14:00-14:20 Harris Cheap DECAF : Estimating density from fixed passive acoustic sensors when you can estimate distance to detections 14:20-14:40 Marques Estimating cetacean density: If you can't see them then listen! 14:40-15:00 Castellote Developing a model for an MPA network for the conservation of cetaceans based on passive acoustic montinoring technologies 15:00-15:20 Leary Deriving call counts from automated classifiers in challenging noise conditions 15:20-15:40 Ponce Observed nonlinear relationship between visual counts and call detection rates of gray whales (Eschrichtus robustus ) in Laguna San Ignacio, Mex. 16:00 end of workshop Friday 26-Aug-11 6:00 AM Hood-to-Coast Race in Timberline's front parking lot and all down the mountain

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